St Cuthbert Wanderers boss Josh Gardner admits double figures have been in his thoughts as his facet have been being thumped by Linlithgow Rose.
On the weekend when each Liverpool and Celtic rattled 9 targets previous their opponents, Saints have been on the receiving finish of a 9-0 scoreline as their Scottish Cup dream ended on the preliminary stage.
And Gardner stated: “I’d be mendacity if I stated it (conceding 10) didn’t come into my head, particularly after 26 minutes once we have been 4-0 down.
“I stated to considered one of my coaches if we may simply get in at 4-0 we may attempt to regroup a wee bit, which is a mad assertion in itself when you consider it.
“Simply as I stated that Mark Stowe, who appeared to attain each time he touched the ball, sailed in a free-kick from about 25 yards in order that was that out the window!
“It was harm limitation. After we bought in at half-time it was about exhibiting a little bit of character. In equity within the second half we have been higher, we weren’t getting lower open as a lot and we had a number of photographs at aim as nicely.
“Generally soccer takes you to highschool on Saturday and that’s what occurred. We have to study from that in any other case it was only a full waste of time. That’s not simply the gamers, it’s everybody, and we must be higher outfitted if we come up in opposition to a take a look at like that once more.”
Connor McMullen opened the scoring for the house facet earlier than Mark Stowe struck a hat-trick to place Rose 4-0 up after only a quarter of the match.
Stowe made it 5-0 with an awesome free-kick earlier than half-time and he continued in that vein early within the second half, taking his private tally to 5.
An personal aim heaped extra distress on Saints earlier than Sandy Cunningham made it eight, Stowe the apparent man to spherical off the scoring.
Gardner admitted: “We at all times knew it was going to be robust. They’ve began very well - they narrowly missed out on successful the league final yr and have upped the ante this yr.
“You possibly can say we should always have executed issues loads higher and we should always have. A couple of issues went unsuitable for us however, if we’re being completely sincere with ourselves, they have been simply far superior.
“I believe it’s an enormous get up name to our lads that in the event that they’ve any aspirations to play at that stage or attempt to acclimatise to that stage we’ve a bit of labor to do.
“I believe a number of individuals of their profession have suffered these heavy defeats. It’s bought to harm you and also you’ve bought to really feel that ache but in addition then put it right into a constructive approach and benchmark your self in opposition to the fellows you’ve simply performed. Generally soccer can work in mysterious methods and issues like that may galvanise your season and also you go from power to power.
“It might probably go the opposite approach and critically have an effect on the arrogance however from what I’ve seen up to now I believe it would have a constructive impact, which sounds unusual after getting crushed 9-0.”
Saints are on account of host Mid Annandale this weekend, the conflict at St Mary’s Park on account of happen tomorrow evening somewhat than Saturday.
Gardner added “I’m fairly happy we’ve bought a sport so shortly to recover from that heavy loss.
“It’s all concerning the response and character proven.
“It must be a very good sport and doubtless a good sport. They’re a good facet however we’re at a stage the place we have to give attention to ourselves as getting our ranges up is much extra vital than specializing in the opposition. We have to fear about getting our personal ranges up first.
“Hopefully we are able to get a very good crowd in because it’s a Friday evening so it’s a very good event for the gamers to bounce again.”